The Grimm Legacy Summary

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My book is The Grimm Legacy by Polly Shulman. It is about a girl named Elizabeth

who gets hired at a library, but not an ordinary library. In this library you don 't check out books

or magazines, instead you check out objects, such as lamps, old fabrics, famous objects from

famous people. Like checking things out of a museum. In the book she works with Marc, the

most popular and athletic person in school, Aaron, a rude but super intelligent guy and Anjali a

pretty, kind yet mysterious girl.

The book starts off with Elizabeth picking the Grimm brothers for her research project.

When asked about it by her teacher Mr. Mauskopf, she tells him she found the stories to be

realistic in a sense and genuine. In the stories there are
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They go and she isn 't there. Then the guy that owns it does a spell and try 's to

turn them into figurines, but it doesn 't work because they are wearing protection brackets. It

turns out he is the Grimm collection thief. He says he knows who has Anjali and that if the grab

something from the Grimm collection, something called the kuduo. It was owned by Marc 's

family.

Aaron borrows snow whites evil stepmothers mirror and in return puts down his first born

child as his deposit and asks Elizabeth to come over. They ask where Anjali is and it says in a

rhyme that she is in a cupboard and that she has been turned into a figurine.

The next day the go to the repository and they find out that Marc stole the kuduo, which

holds the deposits of the pages when they borrow items, like Aaron 's future first born child and

Elizabeth 's navigational senses. Marc gave the kuduo to the guy that was at benign designs and

in return he gives Marc the address of the place that Anjali is.

They go to find Anjali, and to get into the Grimm collection they decide to shrink

themselves with the shrink ray from the Grimm tales. They put her in a pnuem, it 's like the

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